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Just as a reminder ... here's who you can expect most Sundays this winter at the Tompkins Square Park Greenmarket along Avenue A between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place...
• Bread Alone, Boiceville, N.Y.: organic baked goods
• East Branch Farms, Roxbury, N.Y.: Farmstead kimchi, probiotics
• Flying Pig Farm, Shusan, N.Y.: all things pork
• Ronnybrook Dairy Farm, Pine Plains, N.Y.: bottled milk, yogurt, drinkable yogurt, butter, creme fraiche, live cultures
• Meredith's Bakery, Kingston, N.Y.: baked goods with gluten-free options
• Pura Vida Fisheries: Fresh seafood
• Stannard Farm, South Cambridge, N.Y.: 20-plus years of growing for the East Village Greenmarket. Storage vegetables, pears, apples, cider, donuts, beef, pork and eggs.
In addition, there's GrowNYC's Food Scrap Composting from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and GrowNYC's Clothing Collection from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thanks to Madalyn Warren, one of the Sunday vendors, who helped compile this list...
12 comments:
Ronnybrook Farm(s) has become so popular I was wondering this morning if all their dairy products come from a single farm. I see from "Lancaster Farming" that they were buying from other farms back to 2011-2012 at least, so I'd be curious to know the current details. (Their label states that the milk is bottled on their farm and doesn't mention other farms.) Niman Ranch was once an indentifiable ranch, now it's a brand name for a company consolidating meat from over 700 ranches. I buy Ronnybrook Farm milk, so I like the taste, but I do think people should know what they are buying and I don't like it when companies try to dupe or confuse me (which one might say is an essential purpose of marketing).
Yes, I am a skeptical curmudgeon.
Please support our local Greenmarket. I buy the wooden coins from the Greenmarket stand on site. Each is worth $5. All the merchants take them. When you buy, a flat $2 is added. The full $2 goes to support the Greenmarket system.
Be sure to get your "Winter Warrior" card from the Greenmarket tent and have it punched and dated every time you visit the market. Once completed, you'll be entered in a drawing for prizes.
I think you could ask them and get an honest reply. From their standards listed on their website, it certainly would appear that their products come from their herd.
'Clothing connection'? Please donate clothing to the Bowery Mission so the local homeless can be helped. These people are taking items and making money? If the clothing and shoes can be used by someone please donate it elsewhere.
@sophocles Ronnybrook sources milk from a number of farms. My sister married into a dairy farm upstate that is part of the Hudson Valley Fresh collective—about 12 family farms. Ronnybrook is a much much bigger milk company than Hudson Valley Fresh, so while I can't give you an exact number, the milk is definitely coming out of more than a single farm. I'm sure both companies have websites and/or Facebook pages that can offer more info. Hope this helps.
Over across from St. Mark's, Kimchee Harvest has been set up consistently for the past several weeks; I finally bought a jar, now that they have a vegan variety. Highly recommended.
According to their website, Bowery Mission only accepts men’s clothing. Any neighborhood suggestions for where to donate women’s and children’s clothes?
Re: secondhand clothing: collections for resale end up in bales of clothing sent to poor communities in Central and South America and Africa. While at one time this market provided jobs for second hand sellers and access to cheap clothes, this business model is being rethought. In many places, second hand clothing is hampering the development of training and jobs in the locally owned domestic apparel industry (and including the seamstresses that make one garment at a time for a neighborhood customer), keeping wages and opportunities low.
@Anon 8:28 - the Catholic Worker on 3rd St & 2nd Ave takes women's clothing. Not sure about children.
Maybe some signs that food is GMO free and where grown
Any suggestions for donating clothing for seniors in the EV?
Ronnybrook does buy in from a number of other area farms, providing a crucial revenue source for NYS dairies, which are going out of business at alarming rates. That said, they batch code for the products that they bring to Greenmarket to ensure that the products brought to our markets are in compliance with our rules. Other than their cheese, which is allowed to contain 40 percent purchased milk from traceable local farms, 100 percent of the fluid milk, yogurt and ice cream is made with milk from their cows.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for shopping at the market.
Michael Hurwitz
Greenmarket Director
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